What's a sophisticated synonym for "cooking"?

I'm looking for a word that essentially means "to cook" but sounds fancy and sophisticated. What synonyms are there?

Edit:

As for context, I'm thinking of a restaurant setting.

You could use a more general verb like:

And then sprinkle various more flowery adverbs, nouns and adjectives to make it sound more sophisticated. Try not to overdo it.

At Restaurant X, your meal is skillfully prepared from locally-sourced, fresh, organic ingredients.

If you're writing about a specific dish, you may want to use a verb that specifies the method of cooking, like:

etc.

At Restaurant X, our aged prime rib is slow-roasted to perfection.

Just kidding: "Endow with a pleasant thermo-chemical alteration."

Nouns seems to be aplenty, but somehow not verbs. Perhaps you could concoct a verb out of the following nouns:

Other leads might follow by chasing words strongly associated with:

Perhaps, if you could provide more context to your question, someone might be able to offer a more precise and useful answer.

Engaging in the Culinary Arts.

Concoct (verb)

Definition from Encarta:

mix ingredients to make something new: to create something by mixing or combining various ingredients in a new way, especially in cooking

Examples:

And leisurely concoct their grassy meal. ...
Masakazu Nonomura will concoct a progressive series of plates representing the history of Japan.
You can concoct a fairly decent meal.
Or let master bartenders concoct a refreshing ice cream or fruit juice drink.

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